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Larry Summers was chanting beside a glowing crimson pentagram. The Devil himself (or perhaps just a regular old demon, what do I know about infernal cosmology?) was communing with Larry from within the symbol. His skin was red like the blood of ten thousand martyrs and foul black horns protruded from his temples. I could feel waves of evil rolling...
...Kinkopf distinguishes himself from the myriad hip hop poseurs with the lyric: “Don’t hit the crack pipe/never ran the streets at night/soft, preppy, privileged, rich, never hit a chick and called her a bitch/ no crew, no guns and my skin is pale, I never spent the night in jail...
This luck somewhat eased the sting of a heartbreaking Friday overtime loss in the Big Green’s Thompson Arena, and it made Saturday’s skin-of-the-teeth tie to the Catamounts (19-11-4, 13-6-3) crucial...
...Kgalalelo Ntsepe, the outgoing Miss HIV Stigma Free, knows all about fear. Four years ago, tired and thinning, with recurring skin rashes and sweaty spells at night, Ntsepe decided to go for an HIV test. "I went two times, and only made it on the third attempt," she says. "I wasn't sure what I had but I was scared." Within weeks of being diagnosed, she started taking antiretroviral drugs and began to get better. In her role as Miss HIV Stigma Free, Ntsepe has lectured in schools and companies around Botswana and visited Kenya, Uganda and Thailand to talk...
Summers couldn’t apply the understanding he had about anti-Semitism when it left the range of his own experience. Certainly, putting oneself in the shoes of someone whose secondary sex characteristics or skin color are different is not something one can do with an economic regression. It’s hard to have such awareness; we all make insensitive comments without meaning it, and we all take our privilege for granted at times. We learn how to treat other people with understanding only through experience...